If
under the grip of a vice, listen to Lot: "Up,
get you out of this"... vice.

Sodom
and Gomorrah

Genesis 19:14 - "Up,
get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy
this city."

The place: Sodom and Gomorrah.

The prophet: Lot. He was Abraham's nephew
urging his family and in-laws, in the middle of the
night, to escape from the judgment of God upon the
wicked city.

The story: Two distinguished visitors
have accepted Lot invitation to stay with him for the
night. Something was wrong with the inhabitants of
the city. Homosexuality had grown on to all levels
of the community, and that night they wanted to satisfy
their sexual appetite with those two new comers. They
surrounded Lot's house and demanded the two men out
of the door. Lot didn't know the real nature of his
guests, until they stretched out their hands to retrieve
Lot to safety inside the house and spread blindness
to the sinful mob outside, that were looking for
the pleasures of the flesh. "Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin
is very grievous ..." (Gen. 18:20) The two angels
said then:
"For we will destroy this place, because the cry
of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord;
and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it." (Gen.
19:13)

Lot went out as the prophet of the two
angels to repeat the message of salvation to his dear
family, but they didn't want to hear him. In less than ten
hours the prophetic sentence was fulfilled, and that city of
iniquity perished under the fire of eternal damnation.
(Gen. 19:1-28)

To us, living in the twenty one century,
have come, not two angels, but three angels, with the
last message of hope and salvation.(Rev. 14:6-12) The
third angel is crying aloud a solemn warning to the
world of its grievous sin. Certainly the primary target
are those who worship the beast and take her mark of
authority; but on that group are included all the people
that, if they don't repent and turn around their lives,
they could not enter the city of God. Who are them?
"For without are dogs, and sorceres, and whoremongers,
and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth
and maketh a lie." (Rev. 22:15; 21:8)

At this time, we are going to focus on
the growing sin of homosexuality and the misleading
assumptions the world has made. This false assumption
has lead some nations to criminalize speech opposing
homosexual behavior. Pastor Ake Green was charged before
the Sweden's Supreme Court of committing a hate crime
for preaching against homosexuality. Fortunately, he
got the acquittal verdict.

"How did we come to the place where we
put good people on trial for expressing their biblical
beliefs?... The answer is back at the beginning with
the false premise that homosexuality is genetically
determined and therefore the person and the behavior
are inseparable. Wrong premises lead to wrong conclusions,
and wrong conclusions lead to unjust laws.

"The premise behind the effort to gain
acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle is that homosexuality
is genetically determined. Although this is the
premise, it is not the driving force. The driving force
is homosexual activism.

"The dogma that homosexuality is genetically
determined is based largely on Simon LeVay's 1991 study
of the interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus--group
3 (INAH3) in 41 cadavers, and Dean Hamer's study of
an area of the X chromosome known as Xq28 (published
in 1993 and 1995). Both studies were very preliminary;
they were not subjected to the rigorous standards of
thorough scientific research; and their results have
been challenged by researchers who have pointed out
serious flaws in their methodology and have rejected
their conclusions.

"The immediate acceptance of the LeVay
and Hamer studies lies in the eagerness of homosexual
activism to seize upon anything that gives credence
to its ideology, and the readiness of the media to
hype the studies as conclusive."

You can breathe on hope now. It is not true that
one is born with the seal of homosexuality in his genes. God
created a perfect man, nothing was in his genes to enslave
him to homosexuality. "Thou
shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (Lev.
18:22) Smoking, alcohol, porno, homosexuality and similar
enslaving vices are the tools chosen by Satan to bring
men and women under his dominion. There is no power
in the world to free the slave from the ferocious dragon;
only the saving power of Christ the Lord, who already
overcame the devil. The servants of the Most High are
here to call sinners to repentance and out of the sin of homosexuality
with loving concern and respect.

Sin cannot be covered up,
because all things are open to the eyes of the Lord. "For
God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil." (Ecclesiastes
12:14) The way of recovery must be shown to the victim of any
vice, that there is power in Jesus to turn around one's life
and become a child of the kingdom. And then, looking above
the clouds, seeing the Savior that applies the merits of His
blood to erase every sin, and leaves a name clear and victorious
for the day of redemption. Instead of being outside the city
with the dogs, waiting to be consumed by the flames of the
end, one, with repentance and conversion, could be inside as
one of the blessed people of God. Jesus is the Mighty Savior!

Homosexuality is spreading out. By mid 2012,
the states of Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New York, Vermont, and the District of Columbia allow marriages
of same sex. At last, on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that same-sex couples have the right to marry.

If one is anxious for heaven and life eternal,
don't let the world with its intoxicated mind squeeze another
one into the frame mold of mental confusion; he can raise
his hands and heart to find the forgiveness, the grace, and the power
of a loving Savior to remain free and saved from deadly sinful inclinations.

And pray for mercy: "I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your
reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but
be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will
of God." (Romans 12:1, 2)

A word for the last days...
The heavenly character must be acquired on earth, or it can never be acquired at all. Maranatha, p. 46.

A word for the last days...
None are so low, so corrupt and vile, that they cannot find in Jesus, who died for them, strength, purity, and righteousness, if they will put away their sins, cease their course of iniquity, and turn with full purpose of heart to the living God. Maranatha, p. 53.